No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
ALAN ARKINEvery physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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Catch-22′ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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Either you’re growing or you’re decaying; there’s no middle ground. If you’re standing still, you’re decaying.
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I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
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Truth is always unfolding. It’s not an absolute.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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